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14-letter words containing s, e, a, i

  • cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
  • cartridge case — a cylindrical, usually metal casing capable of being loaded with an explosive charge and often also a bullet
  • case sensitive — case sensitivity
  • case-sensitive — In computing, if a written word such as a password is case-sensitive, it must be written in a particular form, for example using all capital letters or all small letters, in order for the computer to recognize it.
  • cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
  • cashier's desk — A cashier's desk is the same as a cash desk.
  • casinghead gas — natural gas obtained from an oil well.
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • catachrestical — Catachrestic.
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • categorisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of categorization.
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celestial city — the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • celiac disease — a chronic nutritional disorder, usually of young children, caused by faulty absorption of gluten in the intestines and characterized by diarrhea and malnutrition
  • cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
  • centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
  • centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • cervical smear — a smear of cellular material taken from the neck (cervix) of the uterus for detection of cancer
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • cheap as chips — inexpensive; good value
  • chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
  • chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
  • children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.
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